Chieko Seki
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 08, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Female
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Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines
Overview: First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
Overview: The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond on-premises that she's in charge of and cares for. The pond holds a number of carp, but someone is snatching them. The teacher forms a special bond with a child who lives in abject poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-29
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お洒落狂女
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-03
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Love's Cheerleader
Overview: Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-19
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Yukiko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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Secret Club 000
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Song of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-09
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Your Favourite
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-29
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The Beloved Imposters
Overview: 1958 Mito Kōmon film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-11
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Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
Overview: 1957 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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Girls of the Night
Overview: In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Overview: Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-21
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When a Woman Loves
Overview: Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-24
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Boku chin hōrō-ki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-26
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Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Overview: Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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Fighting Yasubei
Overview: Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a merchant. However, the next day, Rokuroemon was killed in a fight by the Murakami brothers. Yasubei rushed to the scene, took revenge and became the husband of Miya, the daughter of Horibe Yahei.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-30
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大江戸出世双六
Overview: Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she accidentally broke a plate gifted by Lord Ieyasu. Tired of the strict samurai service, Tasuke moved to the Genbei tenements and opened a fish shop. This tenement housed various characters, including the landlord's daughter Osen who had a crush on Tasuke, the midwife Okan, the blind masseur Oyone and her husband, the carpenter-loving couple Yoshigorō and Ohama, the rōnin Takeuchi Yogoemon, and the siblings Ochika and Shin'nosuke who cared for their sick mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
Overview: One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the owner, Shigebē, that she had come to collect a life he owed from twenty years ago and then left. The same night, Maruiya Genbē also received a visit from the woman's palanquin, and nearby, a man named Manbē was murdered. The detective Hayanawa Gohē concluded the murder was the work of a fox spirit, but another detective, Den Shichi, skeptical of this theory, noticed footprints on the tatami and decided to investigate further.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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その手にのるな
Overview: A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-16
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One Step to Happiness
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-11
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Third Class Executives
Overview: 1950s Japanese comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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Taiyō Sensei Seishunki
Overview: Movie directed by Kunio Matoi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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The Thin Line
Overview: Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-12
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Private Second Class
Overview: First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-15
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Overview: Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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Botchan
Overview: 1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-14
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Diary of a Nurse
Overview: Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Love Letter
Overview: A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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娘十八びっくり天国
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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誰よりも金を愛す
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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大当りパチンコ娘
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-15
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Yasen kangofu
Overview: Japanese war drama.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
Overview: Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-26
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Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
Overview: Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-28
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Story of Second Class Private, Sequel
Overview: First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-18
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Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
Overview: Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest
Overview: First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻
Overview: Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-13
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The Other Woman
Overview: In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-30
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Nonki saiban
Overview: A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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Street of Violence
Overview: An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Claws of Iron
Overview: During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a monster like creature who kills with his claw like fingers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-24
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Donto ikōze
Overview: Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-08
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The Strangers Upstairs
Overview: After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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浮かれ狐千本櫻
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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An Impudent Man
Overview: Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent to Europe for his rather too liberal lifestyle…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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The Adorable Trio
Overview: Japanese romantic comedy film.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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Obon, The Moll Dipper
Overview: Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-16
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Nippon no obaachan
Overview: Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Tower of Lilies
Overview: A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Who Will Judge Me?
Overview: Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Women's House
Overview: After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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Adventures of Princess Anmitsu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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The Honest Fool
Overview: Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Yasugoro can confess his love.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-02
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痛快太郎
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-28
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Seizoroi momoiro goten
Overview: 1957 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-04
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アベック・パトロール 赤い鍵
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-31
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Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Overview: Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate salaryman Goro Mutsu, who is transferred from Kyushu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-11
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The Sea Anemone
Overview: The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-30
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